At 6:15 PM -0700 1999/11/05, Hawke wrote:
>Not if that means carrying 20 tools everywhere. A swiss army knife and/or
>gerber combo tool is FAR more useful (in the long run) than carrying all 12
>tools separately. Each individual tool is better than the equivalent piece on
>the combo tool, but the cost to convienience/accesability is too high.
>And many great innovations have occured because of people coming up with uses
>for a tool, that hadn't been considered a likely prospect by others.
True, but I'd prefer my high-priced carpenter use a full-size saw to build my
cabinets, rather than the micro-saw on his swiss army knife just because it was more
convenient to carry around! That's my whole point: Use the right tool for the job.
Sometimes that's a swiss army knife, and sometimes that's a full-size tool. The issue
that started this thread was essentially an attempt to apply a swiss army knife to a
full-size tool's problem.
Hmmm... there's an awkward reverse analogy to Windows CE here somewhere, I'm sure...
;o)
Regards,
Jim Schram
3Com/Palm Computing
Partner Engineering
